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World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 878 UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Updated for 2010, this guide fully describes every official UNESCO World Heritage site.

In 1959, UNESCO launched an international campaign to safeguard the world's most important sites, which led to the first World Heritage List. In clear text that highlights all the fascinating facts, this revised edition of World Heritage Sites details all 890 properties, including the 13 new sites added in 2009.

Covering 148 countries, the World Heritage List has proved to be a valuable tool in the battle to preserve much of the world's cultural and natural heritage. Its strict criteria result in only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites making it onto the list, including:

The Statue of Liberty in New York

The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario

Waterton Glacier International Peace Park, the world's first international peace park, which straddles the US-Canada border

The ancient Nabataean city of Petra in Jordan

The remarkable Dazu Rock Carvings in China

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Missouri, the largest pre- Columbian settlement north of Mexico

The unique ecosystem of the Serengeti in Tanzania

The new sites added to this edition are:

Stoclet House in Belgium

The Ruins of Loropeni in Burkina Faso

Cidade Velha, the historic center of Ribeira Grande, in Cape Verde

Mount Wutai in China

Shushtar, a historic hydraulic system in Iran

The Dolomites in Italy

The royal tombs of the Joseon Dynasty in South Korea

Sulamain-Too Sacred Mountain in Kyrgyzstan

The Wadden Sea in Germany and the Netherlands

The Sacred City of Caral-Supe in Peru

The Tower of Hercules in Spain

La Chaux-de-Fonds and le Locle, historic centers of watch-making and town-planning in Switzerland Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal in the United Kingdom

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 with the ambitious goal to build peace in the minds of men and women through education, social and natural science, culture and communication.